(Update at 10:10 p.m. on 8/31/26) MILWAUKEE — An abandoned building in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood is under a raze order after a wall collapsed on Monday afternoon.
The Department of Neighborhood Services’ Condemnation Division ordered an emergency demolition after inspecting the National Warehouse Corporation building near Bruce and Water streets on Monday afternoon. All other buildings on the property have been ordered to be vacated.
No one was injured and no one was inside when the building when it collapsed. It was constructed in 1925 and it’s unclear what caused the collapse.
DNS said the warehouse property owner is currently seeking bids for demolition and site restoration. We Energies has disconnected electrical and gas services to the building.
Neighboring property owners and businesses have been contacted, and DNS is working with the Milwaukee Health Department to monitor air quality in the area.
Water Street is closed one block north and one block south of the collapse. Fencing will be installed at the site on Tuesday morning, and Milwaukee police will remain at the site until then.
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Fire Department crews are investigating after a building wall collapses in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood.
Crews tell 620 WTMJ they arrived around 12:30 p.m. on August 31 to reports of the collapse at the National Warehouse Corporation building near E. Bruce Street and S. Water Street in the Walker’s Point neighborhood.
The damage appears to include part of the 2nd floor and the exterior facade of the abandoned building.
So far no injuries have been reported, and no one appears to have been inside.
This is a developing story, and details will be added as they become available.
